Help with Slicer 3
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Hi, I'm new to this forum. I've been using Sketch UP 7.0 since May of this year, and right now I'm trying SU 8.
I was following this tut
Slicer3: Make physical site models fast
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Yet I'm stuck, I can't make it work. I load a map, make it curve (toggle terrain), make a box and place it in the map, click 3 times on it, selecting the box and then I click Intersect Faces > With Model. After that apparently nothing happens, the box is cut, but not like in the tutorial. I explode the group of the box and select the faces and delete them, yet it doesn't work as it should. I then try using slicer 3 but it says that its not a solid object. Does anyone as any idea of what I'm doing wrong. Below some pictures:
Anyway, thanks in advance
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You are missing the second step in the Tutorial...
Get the mesh face THEN make it a Solid - to do this draw some vertical lines down from the four corners and then some horizontals the form a faced solid object. Move the flat bottom face up so the minimum height corner is quite small otherwise you'll get lots of rectangular slices at the base! A flat-ish cuboid with a 'wavy top' if you will...
NOW group it all and use the Slicer tool on that group.
It should now 'slice' OK...
Slicer won't make slices of a single surface mesh because there is literally nothing to slice!
There is Slicer's stablemate 'ContourMaker' that will make contours lines through the mesh... but these aren't 'slices'
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